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May Day Dramatised
When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.
Bhima Koregaon: Jailed activist Rona Wilson’s father passes away
Wilson was arrested by the Pune Police in 2018 under UAPA charges in the Bhima Koregaon case
Taliban 2.0: Old laws in newer package?
Better PR skills cannot hide the chaos that continues at Kabul airport, or the firing at Jalalabad where two people were killed and a dozen injured
Hell, by any other name…
Changing the nomenclature of detention camps does not change the fact that conditions there remain abysmal!
Gujarat gov’t counsel explores different interpretation of conversion by marriage
He, reportedly, told the court that the context of conversion by marriage comes only if there is “force, allurement or by any fraudulent means”. When the court asked if it should record the same, he pleaded to seek instructions.
We want our rights: Afghan women protesters
Group of brave women, held up placards in protest in Kabul, as Taliban gunmen kept an an eye on them
Rising fuel prices: Gov’t tries to obfuscate the truth… again!
The timing of the recent moves to raise levies and retail prices by the governments and fuel marketers, respectively, is at odds with logic, especially at a point when the country is grappling with the impact of a pandemic
Give autonomy to CBI: Madras HC to GoI
The High Court has issued a slew of directions to increase the number of CBI’s personnel and other infrastructural resources
Will Taliban takeover of Afghanistan be used to attack Indian Muslims?
Anti-Muslim sentiments grow stronger on social media with questions like “Why are Indian muslims not condemning Taliban’s actions in Afghanistan?”
UP: Muslim man beaten while trying to hoist tricolour on Independence Day
As per reports, the man approached the SDM after the local police refused to lodge an FIR
Gov’t will help Afghanistan’s Sikhs and Hindus to come to India: MEA
CAA seeks to grant citizenship to Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, Christian and Sikh immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, but excludes Muslims
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Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30
India
UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts
At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills
Minorities
As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly
While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack
Gender and Sexuality
Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor
Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework
Communal Organisations
Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence
Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”